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James_A_Fraser
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since 2003-09-03

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Out Making Anticlines

0 posted 2005-04-12 06:07 PM

I.O.U.

I owe you

What the David Rock
owes Michelangelo:
centuries of quiet reverence,
and I owe you too
the scattered grace of days
you’ve given without plan
or thought of any recompense.
I owe you both the form
and substance of the man I am;
I owe you nights of tears
and afternoons of joy,
owe holidays and poems,
roses and the surging tide,
morning kisses, twilight melodies,
these things and more I owe
for I am a rock, it’s true,
and yet without you, only stone.

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

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displaced

1 posted 2005-04-12 06:09 PM

great concept!

love that ending

Martie

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since 1999-09-21

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California

2 posted 2005-04-12 06:32 PM

Jamie

Knowing you, I have the feeling that you have already given much in this same way.

suthern

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since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

3 posted 2005-04-13 09:49 AM

I expect excellence when I open your work and I'm never disappointed. *S* But sometimes the treat is extra special... it is here. *S*

We're bombarded daily with images of the devastation that can be wrought by love gone wrong... you've given us the opposite... how love that's right makes us more than we could ever have been alone.

This is exquisite... and exceptional!!!

Seymour Tabin
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Tamarac Fla

4 posted 2005-04-13 09:58 AM

James,
A stroke of the hammer on the nail. Enjoyed

freewheelin
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since 2005-04-09

Posts 53

5 posted 2005-04-13 10:52 AM

nicely done

Midnitesun

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since 2001-05-18

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Gaia

6 posted 2005-04-13 10:55 AM

beautifully written

Sadelite
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since 2003-10-11

Posts 2519

7 posted 2005-04-13 11:19 AM

James,

  IOU for sharing your superb poem!  The ending--just the last stroke upon excellence.  Another one to the shelf!
Always it is a delight to read how wonderfully you write elation, melancholy, or anything in between!

              sadie

Susan Caldwell
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since 2002-12-27

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8 posted 2005-04-13 01:50 PM

Very nice James!

"too bad ignorance isn't painful"
~Unknown~

miscellanea
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since 2004-06-24

Posts 4060
OH

9 posted 2005-04-24 11:18 PM

James,

I.O.U.-Yes! One can never appreciate a person too much! Lovin' the reference to the greats and to quiet reverence.

misce

suthern

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since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

10 posted 2005-04-26 04:40 PM

I've missed a lot of reading lately... this is one I welcomed the chance to read again... for it gets better with each reading. *S* Superb write!

DavePage
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since 2003-12-21

Posts 2917

11 posted 2005-04-26 05:00 PM

James

You make me think of my Chicken Shack days and I dont mean the group.

Dave

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